Med-El Co-Founder Ingeborg Hochmair Receives Honorary Doctorate

Hochmair's recognition highlights the continued academic and scientific prestige attached to cochlear implant innovation, reinforcing audiology's interdisciplinary engineering roots.

Retreat for Audiology Professionals to Focus on Tinnitus and Clinician Well-being

Clinician burnout is a growing concern in audiology, and targeted well-being programming for tinnitus professionals signals a field-wide recognition of the emotional toll of managing chronic-condition patients.

Starkey's Karen Spaeth Honored with MSP Business Journal 2026 Women in Business Award

Recognition of senior women leaders at major hearing aid manufacturers highlights the growing influence of women in audiology industry leadership, which may signal evolving corporate culture at key companies.

Who is the new AIHHP Chair, Emily Woodmansey?

Leadership transitions at professional bodies like AIHHP can shape advocacy priorities, membership standards, and policy positions that affect independent hearing care providers across the UK.

The First Step to Making Tinnitus Less Noticeable

Dr. Ben explains the two key stages of tinnitus relief and how patients reduce awareness of the sound over time. Want to learn more about our tinnitus clinic locations? Go here: 1) Charlotte NC: https://treblehealth.com/charlotte-nc/ 2) Philadelphia PA:...

How modern hearing instruments are recreating the brain’s listening system

Understanding the direction manufacturers are taking in brain-inspired signal processing helps audiologists set realistic patient expectations and hold more informed product conversations.

OTC Hearing Aids Can Help, but Professional Fitting Still Matters, Says JAMA Study

Professional fitting continues to add measurable benefit over self-fitting for OTC hearing aids; audiologists can cite this JAMA study to reinforce the clinical value of their services to patients considering OTC devices.

What do hearing aids sound like?

Do you ever find it hard to hear in noisy places, like at the pickleball court? In this video, I'm sharing a sample of what today's modern hearing aids sound like on the courts. #betterhearing #Phonak #PhonakSphere #hearingaids

BIGGEST Issues with Costco Hearing Aids

Getting hearing aids from Costco would be great… if it weren’t for these two major problems. In this video, I take another look at Costco Hearing Centers to explain why I still see so many Costco hearing aid users struggling with their hearing performance — even after Costco...

Vestibular peripheral function remains robust after two weeks of continuous ionic direct current stimulation

Preliminary animal evidence only — no actionable change for clinical vestibular or implant practice at this stage.

The state of motor neural networks in low back pain a systematic review and meta-analysis

While outside core audiology, understanding motor network plasticity in chronic pain may have indirect relevance to researchers studying vestibular-motor interactions and chronic pain comorbidities in balance disorders.

Markerless three-dimensional analysis of mouse eye movements using stereo vision

A non-invasive, markerless 3D eye-movement tracking method could accelerate preclinical vestibular research by removing barriers associated with implanted coil systems.

Natural History of Bone Formation Following Venous Sinus Stenting

Audiologists managing pulsatile tinnitus patients should be aware that venous sinus stenting can lead to progressive bone formation around the stent, which may inform follow-up planning — but clinical decisions remain with neuroradiology and neurosurgery.

Objective data-driven personalised approach to diagnosis of chronic tinnitus: the Tinnitus Detection (TIDE) project - protocol for the identification and validation of a biomarker for tinnitus

Identifying an objective biomarker for chronic tinnitus would be transformative for diagnosis, clinical trial design, and personalised treatment in a condition that currently relies entirely on self-report.

Family-supported hearing aid use behaviour intervention to improve outcomes in older adults at high risk for dementia (SOUND): study protocol for a randomised controlled trial

This is a published protocol, not results — no actionable change to practice yet; await trial outcomes before modifying hearing aid counselling approaches for dementia-risk patients.

Directionally biased neuronal responses to pitch-axis vestibular stimulation in larval zebrafish compared to roll-axis responses

Understanding the directional coding of vestibular neurons at a cellular level in an animal model could eventually inform our understanding of vestibular processing disorders, though translation to human clinical practice is distant.

Mobile Apps for Tinnitus: Systematic Search in App Stores and Review of Intervention Components and Behavior Change Techniques

No immediate practice change is warranted, but audiologists counseling tinnitus patients should be aware that the quality and evidence base of commercially available tinnitus apps varies widely; this review can help guide app recommendations.

Genotype-guided Recall Delineates the Adult Auditory Phenotype in GJB2 p.V37I Homozygotes: High-frequency Vulnerability and Environmental Modulation

Adults with GJB2 p.V37I homozygosity should be counselled about high-frequency hearing vulnerability and monitored with high-frequency audiometry; environmental noise protection is advisable given evidence of environmental modulation.

Dynamic Intraoperative Interpretation of TIM Heatmaps: Fluoroscopic Correlation of Skip and Central Heat TIM Patterns in Cochlear Malformation

In cochlear implantation for patients with cochlear malformations, combining intraoperative TIM heatmap monitoring with fluoroscopy can help identify atypical electrode placement patterns (skip and central heat); surgeons performing implantation in malformed cochleas should be...

Long-term speech discrimination and quality-of-life outcomes in adults implanted before five years of age in a low- and middle-income country

Early cochlear implantation before age five appears to support long-term speech discrimination and quality-of-life gains in low- and middle-income country contexts, but practitioners should await full data review before altering implantation candidacy protocols for this...

Trends and hotspots in subjective idiopathic tinnitus and anxiety disorder research based on Bibliometrics

Mapping the tinnitus–anxiety research landscape helps researchers and funders identify under-explored topics and collaboration opportunities in a field where mental health comorbidity is clinically significant.

Elucidating the Role of Muscarinic Acetylcholine Receptor Signalling in Efferent-Mediated Responses of Mammalian Vestibular Afferents

Clarifying the molecular pathways behind vestibular efferent signaling could ultimately open new pharmacological targets for treating balance disorders.

Conservative Care and Outcomes for 2 Patients With Ramsay Hunt Syndrome

Ramsay Hunt Syndrome cases occasionally present in non-traditional clinical settings; awareness of its characteristic features (facial palsy, ear vesicles) among non-ENT practitioners supports earlier referral and diagnosis.

Spring Appeal 2026

Raising public awareness that sudden hearing loss is a medical emergency could prompt faster care-seeking, potentially improving outcomes for patients who might otherwise delay treatment.

Health ministers advise audiology will enter NRAS under dual profession National Board

Mandatory national registration will reshape how audiology is regulated, credentialled, and governed across Australia, with potential knock-on effects for workforce standards, scope of practice, and clinic compliance obligations.

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